Designed in close collaboration with Coddington, Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968–2016 is both a retrospective and a luxury object. The elegant clamshell box features a bespoke pattern of silkscreened drawings and painted gold trim. Enclosed within are both volumes of Coddington’s collected works, Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue and Grace: The American Vogue Years. Together, the books feature more than 600 images, including Coddington’s most beloved fashion stories as well as behind-the-scenes and never-before-seen photographs by the world’s most important photographers including Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Patrick Demarchelier.

Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those who work behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the 2009 documentary by R. J. Cutler that turned Grace into a sudden celebrity.

The daughter of an hotelier in Wales, as a teenager Grace won a modeling competition and moved to London. She enjoyed a lucrative career as one of London’s leading models on the 1960s scene. In 1968, following a car accident, she became a fashion editor at British Vogue. She quickly established herself as a master stylist and creative director for fashion photography, whether she was transforming studio portraiture into beguiling tableaux, reinterpreting fashion photography classics, or introducing a sweeping narrative style--story telling with clothing that is the hallmark of Grace's work.

"Endlessly inspiring." —Daily Telegraph, Luxury supplement

"A beautifully produced box set of two books showing her seminal work with the publication." —Anna Wintour, ItsNiceThat.com

"Both a retrospective and a luxury object to both inspire and be treasured." —Aestheticamagazine.com

"A beautiful designed coffee table book for any woman who is interested in style and fashion by the great, Grace Coddington." —Yahoo! Style

"A cased edition of two volumes just published by Phaidon on Grace's most beautiful shootings, realized during a career which (fortunately) goes on until now." —Marie Claire Italia

"A beautifully produced box set of two books showing her seminal work with the publication." —Anna Wintour, ItsNiceThat.com

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